Adjustable tape.



A. M. SCHNEIDER.

ADJUSTABLE TAPE.

AIPPLICATION FILED JAN. 1a, 1915.

Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

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Application filed. January 18, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER M. SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Tape, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an adjustable tape which by a comparative short movement of its adjusting means, is lengthened or shortened for three times the path of said adjusting means.

The invention is well applicable to a tape extending along the waist line of a skirt or similar garment as it permits the waist measure to be materially changed with a small change in the position of the adjusting means.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper part of a skirt provided with an adjustable tape embodying my invention; Fig. 2, is a diagram illustrating the run of the tape; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section through part of the tape pocket; Fig. 4, a section on line 44 Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a cross section on line 5-5 Fig. 1, and Fig. 6, a cross section on line 66 Fig. 1.

The body of a skirt or other garment 1, is provided at its top or waist line, with a tubular pocket 2. This pocket is closed along its lower edge at its ends, but is open between such ends, so that access may here be obtained to its contents. Within pocket 2, is housed, a waist band or tape 3, the ends of which are attached to the garment by seams 4, such ends protruding from the ends of the pocket, where they may be connected to each other by suitable fasteners 5. At the front of the garment, the waist band is tripled in a peculiar manner, along its right as well as along its left side which sides are exact duplicates, so that the description of one will apply to the other.

Cooperating with say the right side of the waist band are four slides or looking members 6, 7, 8 and 9 which are alike in con struction, each slide being formed of a frame having a pair of slots, and a cross bar intermediate the slots. The waist band passes from slide 6 to slide 7 back through slide 6, forward to slide 8, back through slide 7, forward to slide 9, and thence through slides 8 and 9, to eventually pass to slide 9 on the left side of the garment. In this Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sep 6;. 5, 1916.

Serial No. 72,656.

way, the band is made of triplex thickness between the slide pair 6 and 7 on the one hand, and the slide pair 8 and 9 on the other hand. The construction is such that the two members of each slide pair are alined and are place directly against one another face to face, so that they will tightly clamp the band threaded therethrough, the clearance shown in Fig. 2, being merely diagrammatic and for the purpose of better illustrating the run of the band. Slides 7, are attached to the garment by tabs 10, so that they cannot be moved, while the slides 8 and 9 are accessible through the open portion of pocket 2. When say the right side of the waist is to be lengthened the slides 8 and 9 are moved to the right, whereby the three ply portion of the waist band is diminished, the overall portion of the band is correspondingly increased, and the tucks 11 formed at the back of the garment, between the slides 6 and 7 on the one hand, and the end seam at on the other hand are more or less flattened. When the right side of the waist is to be shortened, the band is drawn to the left through slide 7, and then slides 8 and 9 are pushed to the left, so that the three ply portion of the band is increased, its overall length is'correspondingly diminished, and the tucks 11 are gathered to the extent desired. The left side of the waist is of course adjusted in a similar manner.

It will be seen that there is always maintaincd between the slide pairs 8, 9 and 6, 7 respectively, a tri-folded section of the tape. Therefore, a comparatively small movement of the slides will either release or gather up such a length of tape, as will cause its re leased or folded portion to be equal to three times the path of the slides. In this way, a comparatively short movement of the slides will suflice to either pack the tucks tightly or straighten them out so that the length of the open pockets 2 may be reduced to a minimum, and that a quick response to the movement of the slides is insured.

The garment may be adjusted at its waist in a most simple manner, and after being so adjusted, is securely locked-in position. The device is invisible though readily accessible and does not add any objectionable thickness to the waist line of the wearer.

I claim:

1. A tape, a first pair of contacting slotted slides, and a second pair of contacting slides and a second pair of contacting slotted slides mounted on the tape, said tape passing from one slide of the first pair to the second slide of said pair, back to the first I slide, to the first slide of the second pair, back to the second slide of the first pair, to 10 the second slide of the second pair, to the l first slide of the second pair, and back to the second slide of the second pair.

ALEXANDER M. SCHNEIDER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

